CaseRectangle1989

New Cumberland, PA, USA

Small to medium sized black rectangular shaped craft several years above the tree line.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-06-01
Where
New Cumberland, PA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 Minutes
Geo
40.232, -76.885 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-new-cumberland-pa-1989-3681ee
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • New Cumberland, PA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 7 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1980s skewed 3.2% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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